On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 01:27:32PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > This would be nice. However, there is still one flaw. > > The upstream gnome developers aren't bumping the soname. How else do you > explain how dpkg can say all dependencies are filled, yet a gnome app > segfaults? Because they don't care about compatibility. Read some of the mailing list archives when imlib broke binary compatibility beteween 1.2 and 1.3 -- and I've heard rumours that raster's gonna do it again soon. I honestly don't think they have any concept of version numbers at all. jpick can attest to this :)
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